The retailer champions Black Friday as the starting gun for Christmas shopping. Shop Direct has seen a four per cent rise in total group sales over the Christmas trading period. Black Friday proved to be the busiest trading day on ...
Tags: Christmas shopping, trading day, Toys
Mark Standen will be responsible for a range of national and independent accounts. Posh Paws has welcomed a new national account manager in the form of Mark Standen. Standen will be responsible for a wide variety of national and ...
Tags: bag market, gift, Toys
The babycare's third quarter results show an increase of 1.1 per cent in like-for-like sales as the team continues its plans to turn the business around. Mothercare is continuing its plans to turn the business around as the retailer ...
Tags: babycare retailer, online sales, Toys
"We are looking forward to continuing this success in 2015, as we launch more premium, innovative RC products into the UK market." Propel RC enjoyed a strong end to 2014 with Q4 sales 'exceeding expectations' over the Christmas period. ...
Tags: Christmas period, Toys
The group has reported sales of £1.82 billion for the 18 weeks leading to January 3rd this year, seeing an increase of 0.8 per cent. Argos’ like-for-like sales remained broadly flat for the 18 weeks to January 3rd, 2015, while ...
Tags: Christmas Results, trading period, Toys
The first range of toys and hand-held puppets based on the popular character will be on display at Trends UK's stand at Toy Fair. Kid Kreations has signed as the master toy licensee for the CBBC personality and presenter, Hacker T. Dog. ...
Film explores the life of Carroll Spinney, the actor who has played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street since 1969. The Toy Industry Association, in partnership with toy design firm Peru Meridian Studios, will be hosting a ...
Tags: Toy Fair, professional networks, Toys
Skechers Performance will return to Houston, Texas on Jan.18, 2015 as the official footwear and apparel sponsor of the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Half Marathon. Skechers Performance will be exhibiting at the coinciding expo, ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a new GATEWAY report that summarizes the results of a survey regarding conversions to solid-state lighting in museums. The survey was sent to members of the museum community who had requested ...
Tags: correlated color temperature, LED installation, Lights
SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of plasma etch, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and surface treatment systems to compound semiconductors device makers, has announced metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) demonstration ...
Tags: metal-organic chemical, GaN-550 MOCVD system, Electrical
Global tablet shipments are estimated to drop 11.8% on year to reach 244 million units in 2015 as demand for high-end and entry-level tablets has both become saturated, while large-size smartphones and inexpensive notebooks are gradually ...
Tags: Tablet Shipments, Android Tablets
ProPhotonix Ltd of Salem, NH, USA, a designer and manufacturer of diode-based laser modules and LED systems for OEMs and medical equipment companies (as well as a distributor of laser diodes for Panasonic, Ushio (formerly Oclaro), Osram, ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has announced the availability of the UltraCMOS PE42020, which is ...
Tags: mechanical relays, micro-electro-mechanical systems, Electrical
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for, RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has introduced a high-linearity 4W power amplifier, operating over ...
Tags: chip-set solution, Electrical
Since gallium nitride (GaN) materials can create much more efficient devices for electric power conversion in devices from cell phone chargers to hybrid electric vehicles, the market for GaN discrete components will grow to $1.1bn in 2024, ...